Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Insecurity is a waste of time.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

Once you start worrying about things, you get down about yourself, whatever it may be.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

I am deebly self-conscious, and bad.

I'm crap and a fatty.

Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

I worry too much.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.